Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1616)
Title:
An Unknown Young Girl
Date:
ca. 1615
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
25 3/4 × 20 inches (65.4 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.57
Gallery Label:
The sitter wears on her bodice an oval jewel forming the crowned cipher "S," which (being the first letter of the name of Sophie of Mecklenburg, King James I's mother-in-law, the mother of his queen, Anne of Denmark) had strong royal connotations in Jacobean England. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005